First Turn
The master innovator behind Pandemic Legacy and SeaFall scrutinises his debut game, 2001 Disney tie-in Atlantis: Pathways of the Deep
ROB DAVIAU
Interview by Dan Jolin
BACKGROUND
“I’m weird, because I went from full-time advertising copywriter to full-time game designer without the usual curve of building a body of work, earning royalties and eventually getting to the point where you’re self-sustaining. I got a job at Hasbro as an inhouse designer back in 1998. Before then, I made, like, $100 writing a Dungeons & Dragons article for Dragon magazine. So I sort of fell backwards into it in a way that, in retrospect, I’m eternally grateful for, because I kinda got a job as an apprentice who was surrounded by masters and got a chance to do a lot of development in addition to original design.”